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hello! my name's acid! forever obsessed with hello charlotte, gothic romance, and dysfunctional fictional relationships

[goodnightwrite]

The Imaginary Perks of Higher Education || Aventurine x Dr. Ratio

“You have better things to do.” “Not according to the Company, I don’t.” Aventurine smiles and takes off his sunglasses. He reaches over and goes in for the kill, lifting the bottom of Ratio’s chin to meet his eyes. No one ever resists the eyes. “You have no idea how special you are—in that I was sent to retrieve you.” Ratio says nothing. He doesn’t really move.

In which the IPC just can’t seem to convince Veritas Ratio to join the Intelligentsia Guild, so they deploy Aventurine to a tiny university city-state, where he must charm the good doctor into their fold.

>> AO3 link >>Ko-fi link

[goodnightwrite]

did you know that this fic is an entire series now

[goodnightwrite]

did you know that this series is complete now?

[shaydh]

"why did you write that"

my fetish

my friend's fetish

not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.

[sun-moon-talia]

i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

[sun-moon-talia]

[ot3]

i think if you pay $900 for a ps5 you should get put on a list that instantly freezes all of your credit cards and then you have to go in front of a jury of random people chosen off of the street and explain to them why you've made this decision and you don't get to spend money again until you've convinced them it was the right thing to do. maybe i'm a rube but i was under the impression that consoles weren't supposed to start getting More Expensive 5 years after their launch. i also wasnt under the impression that disc drives were an optional peripheral with an extra cost so i guess maybe i'm just not cut out for the console market.

[ot3]

well when you put it like that it kind of sounds like they've got everything figured out. no storage, no games, no prablem 👍

[saulutekaipbabasake]

I mean, tbcf the price of a bunch of their components went up a fuckton bc of the ai hype.

$900 is way too much tho

[ot3]

you don't ever have to be fair to a multibillion dollar company's price hikes. they aren't raising prices because they Have To due to component price, they're raising prices because they Get To due to component price fluctuations. youll notice that when corporations raise prices for seemingly legitimate contextual reasons, the prices never seem to go back down once the context is no longer relevant.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

anyway rn my notes are full of a lot of "you should never try too hard to befriend people because you might make them uncomfortable" and "you should never tell people you're attracted to them because you might make them uncomfortable" and I guess I'm just wondering why we're acting like a little social awkwardness is the worst thing that could happen to a person

[thememedaddy]

[ironychan]

[rainbow-femme]

To update this, the astronaut didn’t actually do it, she and her wife were getting a divorce and the wife plead guilty to lying to the feds about it

And framing your ex for a crime mid-divorce while they are actively in space is some Agatha Christie level shit

[theabigailthorn]

maybe she just needed... some space

[samjacksonslefttesticle]

i’ve gone back into my cage cuz i was doing much better in my cage actually

[digital-age]

[cutecipher]

An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked

The accidental bans have been reversed.

March 20th, 2026

[kohakumeltyblood]

Tumblr got caught and is trying to save face. Every blog that was removed except one is a trans woman. Don't let them lie to you.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If your automated moderation keeps making the same error over and over again and bans a bunch of trans women every six months or so then it's not an error it's a feature of the software. Even if we do believe it's unintentional (not a guarantee given the history of transphobia from flesh and blood moderators and the site owner) then it would still only be an error the first time. It KEEPS HAPPENING to the exact same minority group. If my car brakes don't work, the sixth kid I run over is not an 'error', it's unbelievable negligence.

[theconcealedweapon]

[toydrill]

i need people on this website to stop being scared of the n word like i seriously need white people especially on this website to stop being scared of following black people who say nigga or songs that say nigga or movies or books or essays or whatever.

like why is it that it is easier for some of you on this website to become acclimated to the queer people around you reclaiming slurs like faggot or dyke but as soon as a black blogger has the GALL to say nigga you start getting scared because for some weird reason the concept of someone around you using a word they have the right to use and you do not scares you? GROW UP

[toydrill]

to be honest i think some of you are just afraid of someone around you using a word that very bluntly makes you think about the fact that you (YES YOU, WHITE PERSON!) descend from people that benefitted off of killing and raping and exploiting black people on a mass scale (and this goes for non-american white people too i have no idea why people from european countries do not think this applies to them. my grandparents were born in an english colony... when it was still a colony!!!!! there are places that are still being colonized RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!)

[toydrill]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Where’s the YA protagonist teen girl and her two boyfriends that are supposed to save us from this mess anyways

[what-even-is-thiss]

The dystopia books lied. The teen throuples aren’t coming to save us.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Save me teen dystopia love triangle

[what-even-is-thiss]

Teen dystopia love triangle save me

[fintan-pyren]

Obviously blonde4blonde ships are fucked up and scary, but it's important to remember that fiction isn't reality. Many people enjoy things in fiction that would be fucked up irl, and writing blonde4blonde ships doesn't inherently mean that someone is actually okay with two blonde people dating in real life.

[rookthebird]

if your necromancer is digging that is NOT cute. they only exhume bodies when they're extremely stressed. a proper well-enriched necromancer is provided with enemies to kill and reanimate on a regular basis and will make their enemies claw out their own graves as a play behavior.

alternatively you might have a mad scientist that was sold as a necromancer. this is sadly very common but the two breeds actually have very different habitat requirements

[megafaunatic]

see her fabulous

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

apparently if a mother dog has a singleton puppy and you can’t quickly get other same-age puppies to be its foster siblings then you have to do all kinds of shit to ensure it grows up with a well-developed nervous system and social skills, including “filling socks with stuffing and shoving it around while it tries to nurse” which is both hilarious and a nightmare

[creekfiend]

it's truly crazy how much of early puppy proprioception/nervous system/stress response development depends on being gently but persistently inconvenienced by siblings in the first month of life